Rounding Third

July 2013

Written by Richard Dresser
Directed by Sue Lombardo

Don is a coach who believes that winning is what baseball is all about. Michael, his assistant coach, thinks kids should have fun while playing. Don’s kid is the star pitcher of the team while Michael’s kid can barely keep his shoelaces tied. As their differences clash, and the season progresses, we are treated to an entertaining allegory about life, told through baseball. Think back on your early sports memories and then come laugh about them with us.

Show Dates 2013:

July 12th 13th 19th 20th

*Show runs for 2 weeks only!

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Over The River And Through The Woods

September - October 2013

Written by Joe DiPietro
Directed by Sue Lombardo

Nick is a single Italian-American from New Jersey. His main link with family is dinner every Sunday with both sets of beloved, but annoying, first generation, off-the-boat, Italian grandparents. Then he is offered his dream job, but he will have to move to Seattle, leaving family behind. None of the grandparents take this well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around, involving food, guilt, and even inviting the lovely, and single, Caitlin O’Hare, for dinner. All four grandparents as characters are a tour-de-force for the actors who portray them. A delightful romp through immigrant traditions and into the family for whom love is food.

Show Dates 2013:

September 20th 21st 27th 28th

October 4th 5th 11th 12th 18th 19th

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Polish Joke

February - March 2014

Written by David Ives
Directed by Bob Graczyk

A comedy about ethnic identity and the American search for “roots”. Jasiu (thirty-ish) is a Polish-American who has been taught not to value his own roots, so he decides to remake them, reinventing himself first as a sort of non-ethnic every man, then as an “Irishman”. His adventures—alternately zany and heartbreaking—take him through a job interview with a Wasp in an attempt to become a Catholic priest; to a flower shop where he can’t get served because he is weirdly invisible; to a wacky Irish travel agency where he has to prove he’s Irish to buy a ticket; through a love affair with a Jewish woman and so on. Meanwhile Jasiu is bedeviled by a reappearing Polish relative and the ghost of a Polish patriot. Eventually, while trying to avoid his ethnic background, he finds out who he is and what it means to be Polish. This is a funny but thoughtful examination of the Polishness and Jewishness and Irishness that makes us at once alike and different.

Show Dates 2014:

February 28th

March 1st 7th 8th 14th 15th 21st 22nd 28th 29th

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Christmas Belles

November - December 2013

Written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
Directed by Carol Rumba

It’s Christmas time in the small town of Fayro, Texas, and the Futrelle sisters (Frankie, Twink, and Honey Rae) are not exactly in a festive mood. A cranky Frankie is weeks overdue with her second set of twins. Twink, recently jilted and bitter about it, is in jail for inadvertently burning down half the town. And hot-flash-suffering Honey Rae is desperately trying to keep the Tabernacle of the Lamb’s Christmas program from spiraling into chaos. Things are not looking promising. Miss Geneva, the ousted director of the previous 27 productions, is ruthless in her attempts to take over the show. The celebrity Santa Claus, played by Frankie’s long-suffering husband Dub, is passing a kidney stone. One of the shepherds refuses to watch his flock by night without pulling his little red wagon behind him. And the entire cast is dropping like flies due to food poisoning from the Band Boosters’ Pancake Supper. When Frankie lets slip a family secret that has been carefully guarded for decades, all hope for a successful Christmas program seems lost, even with an Elvis impersonator at the manger. But in true Futrelle fashion, the feuding sisters find a way to pull together in order to present a Christmas program the citizens of Fayro will never forget. This hilarious holiday journey through a misadventure filled Christmas Eve is guaranteed to bring joy to your world!

Show Dates 2013:

November 29th 30th

December 6th 7th 13th 14th 20th 21st

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Unnecessary Farce

May - June 2014

Written by Paul Slade Smith
Directed by Jerry Dennis

In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant. Meanwhile, in the room next door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But it turns into Marx Brothers  for the New Millennium, because there’s some confusion as to who’s supposed to be in which room, who’s being videotaped, who’s taken the money, who hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes.

Show Dates 2014:

May 9th 10th 16th 17th 23rd 24th 30th 31st

June 6th 7th

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